Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
It’s the weekend, and we’re cuddled up in floury rolled-up sweater sleeves, writing wintry novels, reading old favourites, and baking away.
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
Giving children time, space, and ingredients inspires magic to crisp up. Today’s gingerbread was made by the little chefs of Rose Cottage. Get a sense of timing and spice ratios…smile knowing you can do it!
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
Early fairy tales are so fun to read this time of year. “You can’t catch me…”
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
These taste wonderful! Now, they’re running all over the house…
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage, handmade kitchen cabinet designAmor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
Pizza lunches with Kalamata olives…mmm…
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
One of my cosy reading/writing nooks. So many treasuries are coming up in the New Year!
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
Writing inspiration is everywhere in our home…just a little bumpy tour of the library, aka the wild forest.
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
*Our most fun moments are quiet and still. There in lies the magic, able to be heard.
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
Here is our weekly vegetable bean soup to keep us healthy while the cold sets into the garden. Looks like it will be a snow-packed season.
Amor Milagre Cosy November Days: Gingerbread & Writing at Rose Cottage
Snowflake vintage movie nights… Love, ~ Amor Milagre
It’s getting cold, so a thermos of cocao for a small town adventure seems a good thing to try this week. My husband gifted me these lovely holiday (table jewelry) salad plates, and we plant more white daffodils bulbs in the newer front garden along with the baby evergreens. Silver bows will match the upcoming snow and ice. The lights glow at night making our Rose Cottage all ‘silver and gold’. We sing that old favourite as we bake pumpkin pies, stir the chili, and slice crusty breads. I write into the full moon night. By sun up, I’m printing new card sets. A magical one is coming up this week! This is my favourite time of year. Happy November! Love, ~Amor Milagre
We’ll be out burlapping the new evergreen babes soon. The eldest ones grew a lot this year so maybe we’ll just wrap up the bases, but it’s more about deer-proofing when there’s little green to snack on in late winter. So, soon little hooded tomten will dot the garden…
Amor Milagre Botiza Novelette Illustrations 5X7 Art Print Stationery Card Set SHOP
A few more songs to keep us company as I paint up new novel illustrations and wait for the breads to rise… Stay warm. The wind doth blow. Love, ~ Amor Milagre
Songs to enjoy on crisp November days…lay on the floor by the record player or take a CD on a drive to watch the leaves fall…paint and dance and bake…whatever we like in the moment. November is a time of complete peace leaving air space for all kinds of beautiful energy to get your soul swaying. The moon is bright and coaxing me to put on another record…
Rye Whiskey – Bill Martin version and then the Nick Cave version, I cannot find my favourite older version…more crackly and earthy. (We don’t drink, but I like the melody, not the message…)
Why Don’t You Do Right – Peggy Lee & The Benny Goodman Orchestra (A song for Mr. Bennet. Small life goal: to do Benny’s casual minimal jiggle-snap.)
Amor Milagre Pale Pink Bathroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage: Bubbles of Inspiration. Author, Designer, Artist.
Water helps me to fully visualize vivid ideas for my books, artwork, our home and school, and for our days. Unwinding the senses to nurture the soul is an important part of my creative process. Here, we have our pale pink bathroom where bubbles wave gently like raindrops in my ear. This mermaid writes and paints ancient memories of the sea into mostly everything I do.
Clean healthy water is what makes our speck of the universe able to house us. No more pollution. Heal now.
I will show the before and afters of our Rose Cottage rooms and gardens all this winter through. I only have to tidy up the sea of photo files from the past several years! We’re happy to unwind now. Just be. Live well.
A new post about our custom woodworking is coming up! These custom-measured and hand-made bathroom cabinets (and more of our Rose Cottage renovation and furniture) will be featured.
Visit the Design Page and follow along with this renovation journal.
Happy thought bubbles to you this cosy auburn November. Love, ~Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Pale Pink Bathroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage: Bubbles of Inspiration. Author, Designer, Artist.Amor Milagre Pale Pink Bathroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage: Bubbles of Inspiration. Author, Designer, Artist.
Unique medicine, and under sink, cabinets were measured for specific item groups. This efficient storage leaves the room free of clutter so Nature and Light are the focus, as well as my thoughts. This Farrow & Ball shade, Setting Plaster, is earthy and grounding, yet oh so sweet and softening. Pink shimmering velvet drapes continue the hue around to glowing sconces and cream lace sheers. The floating sink allows for easy weekly cleaning. We made the most of this little space…more later.
Amor Milagre Pale Pink Bathroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage: Bubbles of Inspiration. Author, Designer, Artist.
It was a bit funny…us carrying this tub through the garden and house that day…just made it!
Amor Milagre Pale Pink Bathroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage: Bubbles of Inspiration. Author, Designer, Artist.Amor Milagre Pale Pink Cream Bedroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage. Author, Designer, Artist.
Quiet calm days unfold sweeter dreams.
Amor Milagre Pale Pink Cream Bedroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage. Author, Designer, Artist.
Mondays are for laundry, one of life’s most sincere luxuries.
Amor Milagre Pale Pink Cream Bedroom Renovation, November at Rose Cottage. Author, Designer, Artist.
Here, we left space for one of my favourite little designs, a hearth cabinet. Coming soon!
Music of the Moment: I May Be Wrong, Peggy Lee & The Dave Barbour Quartet
mending day…we each can sew our own shirts…and like to help each other out, too
